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[jem0208]

The only similar character is the 'O', the brush strokes are way more pronounced on Sunset's. Is it even their font?

Say what? Look at the E and the D. It's clearly exactly the same.

 

[Chuck]

Now I want to know the name of this font and the company that created it.

 

[Arthr2ShdsJcksn]

Sunset Over Drive
Sale Of the Dead

and the fonts are identical.

Seems completely intentional, but I don't see anything wrong with it.

 

[Kacho]

Um... Insomniac and Sony still work together on projects, why would they sue them?

Boy no. The font is for free, read a few posts back

Guys...

 

[Bubbavelli]

Its a conspiracy man. Sony and microsoft have been in cahoots this whole time. Manufacturing a console war to boost sales and shameless crosspromotion. Only now is it apparent. Stay woke

 

[Chobel]

Just a quick search in google, but it looks that ad designer used this font. http://www.dafont.com/overdrive-sunset.font

 

[Storm Raider]

As I said in the other thread, sheer desperation from Sony to try and associate their brand with wht will be the biggest game of this year.

I don't blame them, they have precious little else to market the rest of the year.

Biggest Game of the Year? Wat?

PM me when Sunset Overdrive sells a quarter of the amount Destiny did on Xbox One.

 

[Slowdive]

Man, what's up with Sony? They were on fire for almost a year, then--suddenly--I'm becoming more and more disappointed with what they are doing. It feels like Nintendo is the only one of the three to be doing things right. Never thought I'd say that in 2014.
2015 better bring some improvements mannnnn

this is weird

It's a font.

 

[Doctor_Thomas]

There's a Ratchet movie and remake.

I am not being serious, you know.

 

[D i Z]

Sony will get sued over this I'm sure

Sarcasm?
Sued for using a free font? Insomniac doesn't own it, they used it for free as well.

I'm going with sarcasm.

 

[Einbroch]

there's a hype train?

I thought about putting double quotes.

 

[Glass Rebel]

I don't think Sony will survive the inevitable lawsuit that will follow. They're already on their last leg and honestly, I don't see them making any consoles after this debacle anymore.

 

[KiefbladeMaster]

The E and backwards N are also dead giveaways

Didn't notice that, thanks!

 

[BlackBuzzard]

there's a hype train?

Its imaginary just like the one for FUSE.

 

[timkunedo]

shots fired over a font? Slow gaming news day...

 

[Veritigo_X]

kind of a silly thing to be upset about

This is bigger news than the Insomniac tweet.

 

[blame space]

who is upset?

what is upset?

 

[Neo Dark]

Insomniac did say the font is free for all use, so...

http://www.dafont.com/overdrive-sunset.font

Insomniac didn't say that. Someone else that made a font inspired by them did.

 

[Steve McQueen]

They impley Insomniac is dead? Shots fired if so.

 

[BruiserBear]

That's kind of funny. Definitely looks like the Sunset font.

 

[Banjo-Kazooie]

Sony just shot themselves in the foot.

 

[Dunlop]

A little lame vs MS's awesome Destiny fragrance potshot

but I'll take it lol

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Biggest Game of the Year? Wat?

PM me when Sunset Overdrive sells a quarter of the amount Destiny did on Xbox One.

The sad thing is, from what I've seen of SO, it looks to be better than Destiny in terms of content and events.

 

[Kriken]

Heh, that's pretty amusing

 

[Maintenance]

SO hype train? Biggest game of the year?

Please.

 

[Percy]

Could be trying to imply that Sunset Overdrive will be DOA when it goes on sale perhaps.

 

[MaximusPayne]

that's pretty funny...sony got called out. It does look the exact same besides the color and word use. I am getting PvZ from that sale, though.

 

[sangreal]

Just a quick search in google, but it looks that ad designer used this font. http://www.dafont.com/overdrive-sunset.font

which is a fan-made knockoff of the sunset overdrive font (and labeled as such)

 

[Fnord]

I recognized the font, but is it legally protected/copyrighted?

Typefaces can't be copywritten. Only the names of the typefaces can be.

 

[onQ123]

Playstation isn't that stupid to rip off that font, are they?

Isn't this like Halloween/ horror font?

 

[Beckx]

"Hey, it happens, people use spray paint fonts every day, man, I didn't even know Sunrise Megadrive or whatever you call it was even a thing."

 

[Jomjom]

Insomniac doing a nice job of advertising Sony's sale.

It's mutually beneficial. Insomniac is advertising Sony's sale and Sony is advertising SO. To be expected of two companies with such a long history of cooperation.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Blanks fired

 

[Koobion]

Never going to get over Ted Price saying that Sunset Overdrive was "only possible on Xbox One". Just so painfully disingenuous.

Does anybody remember how terribly aggressively Colin Moriarty went after Price on IGN's own live interview with him immediately after the conference? It was supposed to be Twitter questions from fans, and they read Colin's - LOL! It was intentional, and very funny.

 

[riskVSreward]

The sad thing is, from what I've seen of SO, it looks to be better than Destiny in terms of content and events.

From what I've seen, it doesn't.

Font justified.

 

[TK Turk]

The sad thing is, from what I've seen of SO, it looks to be better than Destiny in terms of content and events.

Nothing sad about this. Activision and Sony have proven the power of advertising though.

 

[plasmawave]

Insomniac didn't say that. Someone else that made a font inspired by them did.

I am disappointed with myself.

 

[ricardo_sousa11]

Is it an Insomniac FONT !? Is it up for sale ? Is it a normal Font that can be found online ?!

If it doesnt belong to Insomniac, why the rage ?!

To those asking whats up with sonic, I remember clearly that Killzone screenys were up on X1 exclusive list on the website.

 

[Raist]

Clearly a desperate move to try and ride the SO hype for a PSN sale.

 

[Synth]

Obviously not, but when you have a widely distributed font available for use, I don't think Imsomniac has any right to get salty or call out a company for using it in their banner.

They don't exactly sound salty.

 

[STG]

the biggest game of this year.

 

[TheJollyCorner]

there's a hype train?

Spoiler

JOKING! I love Insomniac :}

 

[IISANDERII]

Sony just shot themselves in the foot.

lol I am loving this thread

 

[lonedigitalwolf]

So?, was the font used created by Insomniac?, i don't see the big deal if it wasn't, what if they had both used Comic Sans instead?, would they be arguing over it?.

 

[zoukka]

Well at least it's not the Spiderman 2 the movie font imprinted on a console.

 

[nobodyshero]

Haha, it is a tad hilarious.

 

[shwimpy]

that's pretty funny...sony got called out. It does look the exact same besides the color and word use. I am getting PvZ from that sale, though.

The font itself is called Overdrive Sunset. I'm sure the intern at Sony knew exactly what he or she was doing.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

From what I've seen, it doesn't.

Font justified.

Yeah well, you better go to Wal-Mart. To update your prescription. For glasses.

Spoiler

I'm implying you're blind.

 

[rezn0r]

Sunset Over Drive
Sale Of the Dead

and the fonts are identical.

Seems completely intentional, but I don't see anything wrong with it.

same here, I really don't get some of the responses acting like Sony let everyone down or whatever. seems like it was done in good fun.

typefaces don't have normal copyright laws, by the way.

 

[Storm Raider]

The sad thing is, from what I've seen of SO, it looks to be better than Destiny in terms of content and events.

I really wouldn't doubt it. Would be cool if there was open-world co-op though.